- HD 1080
- Runtime: 112m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: Canada
- Director: Atom Egoyan
- Stars: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Tom McCamus, Gabrielle Rose, Alberta Watson
- keywords: small town, canada, based on novel or book, suffering, village, paralysis, based on true story, tragedy, lawyer, car accident, school bus, british columbia
- Production_studio: Fine Line Features, Ego Film Arts, Alliance Films
- Slogan: There is no such thing as the simple truth.
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The The Sweet Hereafter is featured in the top rankings of 1997
- #59 in Top Drama Movies of 1997
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
